Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweeps of party and government agencies in the post-Stalin era have always taken place after, not before a change in the top leadership. Still others, however, believe that the propaganda officials were punished for failures, most notably for so overselling the Lenin celebrations that they have become a bore to many Russians...
...like quality to it. Those who saw them knew exactly what they were coming to hear, and their presentations changed few minds. Above all, the two were a spectacle. People came to find out what they looked like, what they talked like. Still, in spite of it all, they bore their message gracefully and honorably, with a lightness that one would not expect from men who may spend lengthy periods in prison for contempt of Hoffman's court...
...went to the office of Court Clerk Elbert Wagner for assignment to a judge. There, an assistant stamped them with a file number, then moved to a row of cubbyholes and drew a sealed block of cards from the one marked CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY. The cards, arranged face down, each bore the name of one of the district's ten active judges. After freeing the top card with a letter opener, the clerk found before him the name of the trial judge whom he had just selected at random: Julius J. Hoffman...
Unresolved Problems. Several important questions remain. What are the standards to measure "unruly conduct"? Allen had a history of mental incompetence and insisted that there would be no trial. His conduct bore little relation to that of the politically savvy defendants in the Chicago conspiracy trial. And what if the judge himself provokes the defendants into disruptive behavior? While Allen's trial judge was a model of patience and decorum, Judge Hoffman has been accused of goading the defendants and of denying Bobby Scale his constitutional right to representation by his lawyer. In a concurring opinion last week, Justice...
Firm Jaw. In June of 1968, Koster became head of the Military Academy. One gray day last week he stood on the stone balcony in the academy mess hall. He bore himself impeccably-back straight, jaw firm, every graying hair in place. Below him waited the 3,700-man Corps of Cadets, including his son, Samuel W. Koster Jr. General Koster told them that "action has been initiated against me" arising from his Viet Nam tour and that he was resigning as superintendent "to separate the academy and you of the corps from the continuing flow" of adverse publicity...